---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 4003"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "4003"
heading: "Study of potential for expansion of United States agricultural export markets; report to President and Congress"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/4003"
units:
  - "Chapter 71 — Agricultural Trade Suspension Adjustment"
---

# §4003. Study of potential for expansion of United States agricultural export markets; report to President and Congress

- (a) The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) Trade Representative and any other appropriate agency of the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) Government as determined by the Secretary, shall perform a study of the potential for expansion of [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) agricultural export markets and the use of agricultural exports in obtaining natural resources or other [commodities](/usc/7/1a.md?p=9) and products needed by the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8). The Secretary shall complete the study and submit to the President and Congress a report on the study before June 30, 1981.
- (b) In performing the study, the Secretary shall determine for the next five years—
  - (1) world food, feed, and fiber needs;
  - (2) estimated [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) and world food, feed, and fiber production capabilities;
  - (3) potential new or expanded foreign markets for [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) agricultural products;
  - (4) the potential for the development of international agreements for the exchange of [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) agricultural products for natural resources, including energy sources, or other [commodities](/usc/7/1a.md?p=9) and products needed by the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8); and
  - (5) the steps that the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) must take to (A) increase agricultural export trade, and (B) obtain needed natural resources or other [commodities](/usc/7/1a.md?p=9) and products in exchange for agricultural products, to the maximum extent feasible.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–494, title II, § 210, Dec. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 2576.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 3, 1980, see section 213 of Pub. L. 96–494, set out as a note under section 4001 of this title.